Optical solitons in a few-cycle regime: Breakdown of slow-envelope approximation

Hervé Leblond, F. Sanchez, Mel’nikov, I.V. and D. Mihalache

Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM), 2005, vol. 69, issue 3, 378-388

Abstract: The propagation of few-cycles optical pulses in a collection of two-level atoms is investigated beyond the traditional slowly varying envelope approximation. It is shown that in certain conditions, a femtosecond pulse can evolve into a stable spatiotemporal optical soliton.

Keywords: Optical pulses; Few-cycle; Optical solitons; Spatiotemporal optical solitons (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1016/j.matcom.2005.01.011

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